A major breakdown is in progress for the USDollar index. It has broken its intermediate uptrend which began in April 2018. Eighteen months of official rate hikes and tremendous hidden activity with derivative bond purchases, which obscure the absent USTreasury Bond buyers, have finally weighed on the King Dollar. The USEconomy suffers from 20 key breakdown signals, about which the lapdog press r...Read More
Gold COT Report - Futures Large SpeculatorsCommercialTotal LongShortSpreadingLongShortLongShort 298,10861,55459,841160,228420,378518,177541,773 Change from Prior Reporting Period 23,475-8,7563,18618,23554,53044,89648,960 Traders 20775745660287189 Small Speculators LongShortOpen Interest 59,42835,832577,605 7,0733,00951,969 non reportable positionsCh...Read More
The gold miners' stocks just blasted higher to a major decisive breakout this week! Driven by gold's own huge bull-market breakout, the gold stocks surged well above vexing years-old upper resistance. The resulting new multi-year highs are a game changer, starting to shift long-apathetic sector sentiment back towards bullish. This will increasingly attract back traders, with their buying u...Read More
- Gary Tanashian, NFTRHYou may know me as the......guy.The guy using the planets of an imaginary gold sector Macrocosm with proper fundamentals that are decidedly not imaginary but rather, are necessary to call a real bull phase or even bull market. By managing a strict set of macro and sector fundamental inputs (to the sound of crickets and little else in the sector) NFTRH and its subscribe...Read More
By: Ira EpsteinGold technical update -- preparing for the G20, China and more:Read More
- David Haggith President Trump stated on Wednesday that a war with Iran will be fast and easy. Let's hope that means faster and easier than the trade war with China has turned out to be, now a year long and getting worse.We're in a very strong position if something should happen. I'm not talking boots on the ground. I'm just saying if something would happen, it wouldn't last very long.Reute...Read More
The UK light iron inter-merchant spot market has been relatively stable amid some widening in price assessments while suppliers and consumers jockey for position in their estimates for the outcome of July monthly settlement talks due to start next week, sources told Fastmarkets on Friday June 28.Fastmarkets' weekly price assessment for UK grade-5C ferrous scrap on an inter-merchant basis was ?80-...Read More
Eric Sprott has more than 40 years of experience in the investment industry. In 1981, he founded Sprott Securities (now called Cormark Securities Inc.), which today is one of Canada's largest independently owned securities firms. In 2001, Eric established Sprott Asset Management Inc. Over the years, Eric has personally been the recipient of numerous awards and honors, including one of Investor Dig...Read More
"Gold is doing well, it will drag silver up," he said. "Silver has become a bit of a different market since the advent of the cryptocurrencies... once monetary demand comes back, you'll see silver accelerate because it's a small market." David Morgan is a world-renown precious metals aficionado. He is the creator of the Silver-Investor.com website and The Morgan Report, a monthly report that cover...Read More
Paul Singer, Elliott Management founder and co-chief executive officer, comments on the state of financial markets at the Aspen Ideas Festival in Aspen, Colorado.Paul Singer is an American billionaire hedge fund manager, activist, investor, vulture capitalist, and philanthropist. His hedge fund, Elliott Management Corporation, specializes in distressed debt acquisitions. Singer is also the founder...Read More
Gold has had its best run in many years. Bitcoin, after over a year in the dumps has come roaring back to life. And according to Lior Gantz, this is only the beginning. Things are rapidly turning down and the geo-political scene has never been scarier. There aren't many places for the middle-class to put their wealth and gold/bitcoin is one of the last. Of course everything has risk, but so-called...Read More
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Finally it happened although it took 6 long years to break through The Gold Maginot Line at $1,350! This resistance was a lot stronger than the original French one Continue...Read More
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The price of shredded ferrous scrap imported into India decreased for the fifth consecutive week, however many market participants were optimistic that prices had reached their lowest and a recovery was imminent, sources told Fastmarkets on Friday June 28.Fastmarkets' weekly index for containerized imports of shredded scrap into India went down to $308.88 per tonne cfr Nhava Sheva on Friday, from...Read More
Demand for steel billet in the Philippines remained weak during the country's rainy season due to a slowdown in construction activity, although demand from Indonesia was expected to recover after the country's election results were finalized.The rainy season continued to dampen demand for steel billet amid continued weakness in the domestic steel markets, a trader in the Philippines said. The Phil...Read More
China's rebar market maintained its upward momentum on Friday June 28 amid rising futures, though spot demand fell gradually. Domestic Eastern China (Shanghai): 3,960-4,000 yuan ($577-583) per tonne, up 20 yuan per tonneNorthern China (Beijing): 3,850-3,880 yuan per tonne, up 40-50 yuan per tonneRebar futures rose during the day with traders engaging in speculation amid bullish sentiment attribute...Read More